O n March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together major elements of the rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission with the first humans to the moon in more ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket gets 2nd stage even as Trump tries to scrap Space Launch System (photos) Tank for 1st Artemis touchdown on the moon | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2025.

The first human mission to the moon in half a century is starting to get stacked up. The NASA-funded Space Launch System (SLS), the massive rocket slated to send the Artemis 2 crew around the moon ...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a three-man one-woman crew around the moon to thoroughly test the spacecraft's life support, propulsion and other ...

The Artemis II rocket’s core stage that will help carry four astronauts to orbit the moon — the first time in more than 50 years humans visited Earth’s lunar sister — arrived at NASA’s ...

The Artemis mega moon rocket is NASA's latest and most powerful launch vehicle, intended to return astronauts, robots, and supplies to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

The SLS rocket launched on November 16, 2022 for the Artemis 1 mission, sending an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back. The 5.75-million-pound rocket is essential to NASA’s Moon ...

NASA's next moon rocket is stacking higher at the Kennedy Space Center, ... The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled.

As for the Artemis 2 booster, after its 1-mile journey Tuesday morning, the rocket will rest aboard NASA's Pegasus barge as it departs the boggy waters of New Orleans for a 900-mile journey across ...